’ famous masturbation scene in the 2001 film is seared into the actress’ brain, but not for the reasons you might think. center around what happened before shooting the scene, when some gastrointestinal distress nearly got in the way of filming. Watts, 55, shared what no one was asking about in a conversation with for series.
Bailey, 36, brought up a specific scene from his 2023 miniseries , and Watts could tell immediately where he was going with the topic. “I had to do a scene that actually wasn’t included in the story, which ended up informing a lot of the character,” Bailey began. “It was me masturbating.
And I remembered ...
” “Oh, ‘ ,’ yes. I was traumatized,” Watts said, finishing his sentence. It turns out Bailey and Watts had wildly different experiences in filming their respective intimate scenes.
“I just remember giggling quite a lot, and the line between feeling comfortable and feeling not, when the stakes are that high,” Bailey said. As for Watts? “I remember having to go to the bathroom multiple times because I think I might have been having explosive something or other.” “Euphoria?” Bailey suggested, coming close to the right word.
“Literally. I was so in butterflies,” Watts said. “I was freaked out and David [Lynch] knew that, but he didn’t want to not get the scene.
I kept sort of attempting it and going, ‘I can’t do this, David. I can’t do it.’ He was always off at the other side of the room in a black tent or.